Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-02

removed lie was unfit for his place, she
said, 10 say nothing of his wife. Gen. Grant
sat next and defended his officer bravely.
OF course Gen. Ord was not removed.
During all this visit similar scenes were
occurring Mrs. Lincoln repeatedly attacked
her husband in the presence of officers be-
cause of these two ladies' and never suffered
greater humiliation and pain on account of
one not a near personal friend than when
saw the head of the state-the man who car
ried all the cares of the nation at such a crisis
subjected 10 this inexpressible public NOR
tification He bore it as Christ might have
done, with an expression of pain and sadness
that cut one to the heart, but with supreme
calmness and dignity He called her moth
er," with his old time plainness; he pleaded
with eyes and tones. and endeavOred to eX-
plain or palliate the offenses of others, till she
turned on him like a tigreSs, and then he
walked away, hiding that noble, ugly face
that we might not catch the full expression
of its misery.
THE MARTYR PRESIDENTS COURTESY.
Gen. Sherman was witness of some of
these episodes and mentioned them in his
{ memoirs many years ago. Capt. Barnes, of
the navy, was a witness and sufferer too.
Barnes had accompanied Mrs. Ord ON her
unfortunae ride and refused afterwari to say
that the lady was to blar4e Mrs Lincoln
never forgave him. A day or two afteTward
he went to speak to the president on Some
official matter when Mrs Lincoln and tev
eral others were present. The presidents s
wife said something TO him unusually offen-
sive that all the company could hear. Lin
coin was silent, hut after a moment he went
up to the young officer and taking him by
the arm led him into his own cabin, TO show
him a map or paper he said. He made no
remark. Barnes told me, upon what had oc-
CURED He could not rebuke his wife, but
he showed his regret and regard for the
officer with touch of what seemed to me
the most exquisite breeding.
After the murder of the president the &c
Centricities of Mrs. Lincoln became more ap-
parent than ever, and people began to won
der whether her mind had not been affected
by her terrible misfortune Mr.. Seward
told me that she sold the presidents shirts,
with his initials marked on them before she
left the White House. and that, learning the
linen was for sale at a shop in Pennsylvania
avenue he sent and bought it privately.
She fingered at the executive mansion a long
while after all arrangements should have
been made for her departure, keeping the
new president out of his proper residence.
Afterward she made appeals to public men
and to the country for pensions and other
pecuniary aid, though there was no need fer
public application. he went abroad doing
strange things and carrying the honored
name of Abraham Lincoln into strange and
sometimes unfit company. for she was
greatly neglected and felt the neglect.
While l was consul general at London ]
learned of her living in an obscure quarter
and went to see her She was touched 10
the attention, and when | asked her To ms
house-for it seemed wrong that the widoS
of the man who had done SO much for us
all should be ignored by any American rep
resentatire-she wrote me a note of thanks.
betraying how rare such courtesies had be-
come TO her then.
The next l heard of the poor woman was
the scandal of the courts in Chicago, when
the fact was made clear that she was insane.
1t was great relief to me TO learn it, and
doubtless the disclosure of the secret which
her son must have long suspected-though,
like the Spartan boy, he cloaked his pain
was to him sort of terrible satisfaction. II
vindic lted his conduct; it told for him what
he had concealed; it proved him a worthy
son of that great father who also bore his
fate so heroically Badeau in New
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